Tag Archives: Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Hahira annexation again, two county, and four Valdosta w. Phi Sigma Kappa @ GLPC 2014-05-27



Return of the

Hahira
rezoning
and
annexation,
down from 66.1 to as 58.09 acres,
even after the

Lowndes County Commission letter of objection of 22 April 2014,
and on Tuesday next week, same time as the County Commission meeting.
A

ULDC amendment request for Special Events and such
and an

LDR amendment request for unspecified reasons.
A

county
rezoning

to agricultural
and
three

Valdosta
use changes:

daycare,


fraternity,
and

commercial office.

Here’s the agenda, which arrived as a PDF actually convertable to text!

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue


Tuesday, May 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Follow the law and be aware what the citizens want –Judge Ellerbee @ Lake Park 2014-04-28



Apartments are expensive to local governments, developers don’t sue
unless there is actual discrimination (which there isn’t in this case),
water use is a big issue,
and the primary responsibility of elected officials is to the citizens
who elect them:
Judge Wayne Ellerbee made these and other points relevant to many
rezoning requests as he spoke for some of the opponents at
the

Lake Park Brookhaven rezoning.

He pointing out that the question before the Lake Park City Council was
the rezoning,
but the developers needed to take into account the effects on the
entire city of Lake Park.
He mentioned studies from the University of Georgia
saying that the most expensive zoning Continue reading →

Opaque Planning Commission agenda from Lowndes County @ GLPC 2014-04-28



Just in case it might work, I sent an Open Records Request to the
Lowndes County Clerk before Monday’s Planning Commission meeting.
The result just arrived, two days later, 47 hours after the meeting started.

It is in electronic form, as I requested, but it’s a
PDF of a scanned
image, so turning it into HTML would require OCRing it or transcribing it,
unlike
the real PDF I got by another means before the meeting
and posted Monday.
If the agendas and minutes for the Planning Commission were posted
on the web like the Lowndes County Commissions own agendas
and minutes already are, this problem wouldn’t arise,
and there would also be less work for county staff.

-jsq

One Hahira rezoning and annexation and Two Valdosta Conditional Use Permits @ GLPC 2014-04-28



It seems unlikely the Hahira
rezoning
and
annexation
will go anywhere tonight, due to the

Lowndes County Commission letter of objection of 22 April 2014,
even though that may be based on a misunderstanding.
Hm, somebody wants
to establish a recycling center.
And Langdale Ford wants
to establish a minor automotive repair facility.

Here’s the agenda, which arrived as a PDF actually convertable to text!

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Monday, April 28, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Videos: Lake Park annexation dropped and apartment rezoning unpopular @ GLPC 2014-03-31



The

annexation request for The Gardens was withdrawn
(perhaps because
the Lowndes County Commission had already explored
options for modifying it or just not annexing it),
and the

rezoning for the Brookhaven apartments was very unpopular,
both for Lake Park, plus

a Zoning Ordinance change.
The twin
Hahira cases to

rezone
and then

annex
a lot on the east edge of town sailed through.
No city of Valdosta cases this time.

Here’s

the agenda, with links to the videos.

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Hahira twins and three each Lake Park and Lowndes County @ GLPC 2014-03-31



The twin
Hahira cases are to

rezone
and then

annex
a lot on the east edge of town.
No city of Valdosta cases this time,
but three each for

Lowndes County
and

Lake Park.
One of the Lake Park cases is

a Zoning Ordinance change.

Here’s the agenda, which arrived as a PDF of an image,
which I have OCRed into HTML.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Monday, March 31, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Six small rezonings and a planned development @ GLPC 2014-02-24



Mostly single-family rezonings this time, plus one 15 acre
planned development request.

Here’s the agenda, supplied by an informant.
This one came as a real PDF, permitted extracting the text,
so that’s an improvement over

last month.
Too bad about that
“the expense” for the county to put it on the web in the first place.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Monday, February 24, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Dollar General and a historical overlay @ GLPC 2014-01-27



Yet another

Dollar General,
two

small rezonings in Lowndes County,
a

business office
in Valdosta,
and a proposed

Historical Overlay District.

Here’s the agenda, supplied by an informant.
It came as PDF of an image, so I OCRed it to get this text.
But why should any citizen have to do that?
Oh, right, “the expense”.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Monday, January 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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the expense of agendas @ GLPC 2014-01-27



The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meets tonight at 5:30PM,
but there’s no agenda posted anywhere online.
At
the same meeting at which he asserted

“we have broadband”,
and

“transparency is not a problem”
County Chairman Bill Slaughter said the county doesn’t publish
agendas or minutes for the Planning Commission because of
“the expense”.

“the expense”

v.

“When officials act like

they have something to hide,

they often do”

I suppose I don’t know much about this Internet stuff,
so maybe somebody can explain it to me:
what’s the big expense in publishing the GLPC agendas and minutes
the same way the county publishes its own

agendas and

minutes?
Yet if you search for the Planning Commission on the county’s website,
all you find is its name in a list of

Boards, Agencies & Commissions;
tonight’s meeting is not even listed in

the county’s online calendar.

For that matter, what would be the big expense in posting
the entire agenda packets, like for example Continue reading →

Agenda! yes Nottinghill and new chair and vice-chair, 1 Hahira, 4 Valdosta @ GLPC 2013-11-25


Agenda page 2 @ GLPC 2013-11-25
How would you as a citizen have known
Nottinghill
is on the real agenda
they’re using right now in the Planning Commission meeting?
What if you wanted to speak for or against in that public hearing?

The one in the last post wasn’t the real agenda,
and even some people who work for local governments didn’t know that.

Here is the real agenda, photographed by Gretchen just now,
followed by text version.
It also contains an additional item about
election of a new Chair and Vice Chair.


Agenda page 1 @ GLPC 2013-11-25

Update: I had the date of this meeting wrong in the transcription; fixed now to November 25, 2013. If the county published the agendas and minutes of the Planning Commission, nobody would have to be transcribing by hand….

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING


AGENDA


Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Monday, November 25, 2013* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing



CALL TO ORDER, INVOCATION, PLEDGE


  1. Approval of the Minutes: October 28, 2013



CITY OF HAHIRA CASE:


FINAL ACTION by the City of Hahira Mayor-Council

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Hahira City Hall, 102 S. Church Street, Hahira, Georgia

7:30 p.m.


  1. HA-2013-05 Wendy Black


    Property Location: 7495 Union Road

    Request for Variance from Section 10-6 of the Hahira Zoning Ordinance pertaining to size requirements for signs



CITY OF VALDOSTA CASES:


FINAL ACTION by the City of Valdosta Mayor-Council

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Valdosta City Hall, 216 E. Central Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

Council Chambers, 2nd Floor

5:30 p.m.


  1. CU-2013-04 Cynthia McDougle


    Property Location: 808 Bethune Street

    Request for a Conditional Use Permit to establish a personal care home for 4-6 residents in a Single-Family Residential (R10) zoning district


  2. CU-2013-05 Jessie Marshall, III


    Property Location: 625 East Gordon Street

    Request for a Conditional Use Permit to establish a church in a Single-Family Residential (R-6) zoning district


  3. CU-2013-06 Theresa Patterson


    Property Location: 108 East Adair Street

    Request for a Conditional Use Permit to establish a personal care home for 4-6 residents in a Residential Professional (R-P) zoning district


  4. VA-2013-16 Mac Mackey


    Property Location: 103 B Avenue

    Request to rezone 2.2 acres from Manufacturing/Distribution (M-2) to Wholesale Light Industrial (M-1)


Agenda page 2 @ GLPC 2013-11-25




LOWNDES COUNTY CASES:


FINAL ACTION by the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Lowndes County Judicial and Administrative Complex

Commission Chambers, 2nd Floor

327 North Ashley Strcet, Valdosta, Georgia

5:30 p.m.



  1. REZ-2013-11 Nottinghill


    Location: Orr Road, Valdosta, Georgia

    Request to rezone 14.99 acres from R-A (Residential Agricultural) to R-21
    (Medium Density Residential)

    *Note: This case was tabled from the GLPC’s
    September 29th
    and
    October 28th,
    2013, regular mtg.



    REZ-2013-11 Nottinghill was tabled by GLPC
    30 September 2013
    and again

    28 October 2013    .


    REZ-2013-11 was also tabled by the Lowndes County Commission

    8 October 2013
    and

    12 November 2013    , specifically
    until the County Commission’s 10 December 2013 meeting.

OTHER BUSINESS




  1. Attendance policy for appointed Boards

  2. Election of 2014 GLPC Chair and Vice Chair


  3. GLPC 2014 Meeting Schedule


ADJOURNMENT

-jsq